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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Don Roberts, John Brant, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, William Opdyke
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

In that time, many worthwhile books on the matter of refactoring have been brought to my attention. It is setup as a catalog of refactoring techniques. Facing an existing project, you sometimes get confronted with “code that smells”. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. In my career, a very little portion of the projects I was involved with were based on new code. But what does "updating" means to any human being? I got curious and downloaded its Eclipse plugin, I then picked the first bad smell code which Martin Fowler explains in his book: “Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code”. According to Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts p.87), there are two ways to solve it. Most of them were based on existing code. More specially to a little person like me. €�Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code” is focused on OO programming (lots of Java examples) and Agile practices. I started with the “Clean Code” book by Robert Martin since I was on a limited budget. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code; Design Patterns, Gang of Four; Test Driven Development: By Example; The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .NET. What I found most useful are all the examples that are given for almost every refactoring that is described. This book is an extensive compilation of refactorings that range from providing meaningful names for variable to collapsing class hierarchies. At last, I have decided to update myself ;)!!! The next book I'll probably get, since I have heard good things about it, is “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”. It is a great book from Martin Fowler & Co.